Winemaker Notes
Vaulorent is the only Chablis Premier Cru vineyard located on the same hill formation as the Chablis Grand Crus, sitting on the southern end of the “Fourchaume” set of vineyards and just north of the Grand Cru Preuses. The wines produced here are widely considered to be some of the best of the Chablis Premier Cru, giving a full-bodied, mineral-drenched Chablis experience with layers of detail. With 2.2 hectares under vine, this is the domain’s most limited bottling.
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Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Pure clear yellow. The bouquet is very attractive, some fresh plums and even a little quince, yet also floral. Rather exciting. Yet again this stands out chez Fevre. 20% wood including some new 500 litre barrels. Racy with a lime streak and excellent energy. Just the finish holding back the 5th star but I was tempted.
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Vinous
The 2021 Chablis Vaulorent 1er Cru has a little more oak on the nose compared to others in this flight, although there is tangible tension and mineralité . The palate is fresh on the entry with a keen thread of acidity, quite bright with well-integrated oak, although it does not quite deliver the personality and complexity of the best wines from this vineyard.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.
Chablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.